The “Some Definite Service” Network
Find your role and help our parishes grow!
Prayer Partner
Everything starts with prayer. Help Southwark parishes grow through your prayers.
Network Volunteer
Offer time or specialist skills to support catechesis, formation or evangelisation events.
Parish Lead
Collaborate with your Parish Priest, to champion formation, catechesis or evangelization in your parish.
Accompany parish volunteers.
For Parishes
Develop effective plans to grow, harnessing the power of the SDS Network.
Deanery Mentor
Work across parishes to champion catechesis, formation or evangelisation events, by accompanying Parish Leads.
For Priests
Understand what the SDS network of intentional accompaniment means for you.
Our Activities: Evangelisation, Catechesis & Formation
Evangelisation
We support parishes in the work they are already doing to answer Jesus’ call to share His Good News as well as encourage new ideas which seek to create opportunities for all to encounter the Living God.
Catechesis
Since the early Church, the term ‘catechesis’ has been used to describe all the Church’s efforts to bring people to an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ, to help them sustain their belief that he is the Son of God.
Formation
We are all called to nourish and grow the gift of faith we have received. Formation not only equips us to answer this call, but empowers us to believe the truths of our faith so that we can share them with others.
What is accompanying ?
Intentional Accompaniment is a way for lay people to support each other, on their path of missionary discipleship.
It means you are never alone.
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Why get involved?
God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission… I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.
These great words of St John Henry Newman continue to inspire our vision, that each one of us are called to play our part, that all of us have a particular work to do in helping Southwark become a missionary Archdiocese.
Perhaps you are called to be a Deanery Mentor or a Parish Lead? Perhaps you are called to support your parish by getting involved in sharing new ideas for Evangelisation? Perhaps you are called to keep up the good work you are already part of?